Yea. That was a good movie. A lot of the older movies on the topic are really good. Plus it's from a different time. So I don't have to worry about them seeing something that might upset their conscience.

I say this Jeff only because a good friend of mine who passed away from AIDS was in the process of directing a film. It included all types of men and women who have HIV from all different types of backgrounds. From male prostitutes to executives. Unfortunately, my friend Rogers' focus was solely on death and the 1970s and '80s when most of our family died without medication. He did not get the necessary funding he required to finish the film. People in the community were more than willing to give him money only if he could tell the story of a positive Community who has come back from HIV and prospered. Roger was unwilling to do this because he was adamant about telling his story in his time and his way. Unfortunately the film never got made.

I just saw The Normal Heart on HBOMAX. With Julia Roberts. I don't know how I missed it. It was really good.

I thought it was a really good movie. Also like others have said, it was relevent then and still is. I have seen it a couple of times.

@A myHIVteam Member I grew up in the eighties. HIV and AIDS was all I knew about the gay community. I never even really met a same gender loving man until I moved to Pittsburgh. Let alone a black man. I didn't even know black people was dying of Aids on a large scale until I moved here. I was totally uninformed. It didn't hit home til 97 when one of my running buddies lover all of a sudden died of pneumonia (like everyone seemed to back then). Shortly after my friend tested positive.

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